While all the others candidates are frantically running around like chickens with their heads cut off, worrying about money reporting deadlines, straw polls and the ungluing of the primary calendar, Bloomberg is off to undisclosed locations, living the life, waiting until the spirit moves him. And when it does, game over.

Excellent article written by Perot’s former campaign manager and Reagan strategist

Bloomberg wouldn’t have to be a spoiler, a la the humorless, rigid and penniless Ralph Nader; he could be an energizer, a force that gives other unaffiliated and justifiably frustrated citizens a candidate to support.

Good perspective written by a former employee~the longer the candidate is in the race, the greater the chance of doing something stupid and screwing it up.

I imagine that Bloomberg will bide his time and announce he’s running for president later this year. He’ll count on a “rope-a-dope” strategy letting the other candidates burn themselves out on the stump and wear out their welcome with the media and voters.

Good article on MB’s personal style and how it might play in the rest of the country.

Bloomberg will likely survey the field after the Super Tuesday primary on Feb. 5. If the Democrat and Republican nominees have high negatives, and if vast numbers of people continue to tell pollsters the country’s on the “wrong track,” Bloomberg is a good bet to make the jump.

In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday, 58% say the two major parties are doing “such a poor job” that a third party is needed. Just a third say the established parties “do an adequate job of representing the American people.”

If we want to truly improve the education our children receive and fulfill the promise of the civil rights movement, we have to stand up and tell them “no more,” Bloomberg said. “No more pandering to the special interests, no more fear of tough issues and no more excuses for failure”